Annals of the Kings ʾIyāsu II and ʾIyoʾas

Tārīka ziʾ ahōmū la-nagūśna ʾIyāsū wa-la-nagūśna ʾIyōʾas · anonymous (royal chroniclers) · reigns 1730-1755 and 1755-1769 (18th c.) · chronicle · LIT4634Chronicle

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

Beta Masaheft LIT4634Chronicle (Iyāsu II) and LIT4635Chronicle (Iyoʾas) list Basset 1882 and Guidi 1954 as editions and no translations. The Guidi volume is 'Annales regum Iyāsu II et Iyoʾas', CSCO 61 and 66, Scriptores Aethiopici ser. 2 t. 6 (Parisiis 1910-12; Louvain reprint 1954). HOLLIS mms 990027361310203941 records 'Edidit [et interpretatus est] Ignatius Guidi' with languages 'Ethiopic and French' and the Ge'ez unititle 'Tārīka ziʾ ahōmū lanegūśna ʾIyāsū walanegūśna ʾIyōʾas'. HOLLIS 'Annales regum Iyasu' returns only that set. A public-domain 1954 reprint scan is on archive.org (annalesregumiyas0000unse).

Two reigns in one volume: Iyāsu II (1730-1755), the last reign of effective Solomonic power before the zamana masāfǝnt, and Iyoʾas (1755-1769), whose murder by the Oromo notables marks the collapse of central authority. Together with the 1769-1840 material translated by Weld Blundell, this is the missing link in the English narrative of the 18th century.

Existing translations recorded

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Edition / series
Annales regum ʾIyāsu II et ʾIyoʾas (Ethiopic text with Guidi's French version) · CSCO 61, 66, Scriptores Aethiopici ser. 2, t. 6 · Ignazio Guidi · 1910

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0 LIT4634Chronicle
archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (1910-12; 1954 reprint) annalesregumiyas0000unse

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Annals of the Kings ʾIyāsu II and ʾIyoʾas” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anon-annales-iyasu-ii-iyaos